The famous Van Gogh painting Starry Night has received a very modern makeover
From the Herald Sun
By Erinna Giblin
Oct 3, 2012
THE picture is iconic, inspiring artists, astronomers and lovers for generations. Now new tribute has been paid to Vincent Van Gough’s “Starry Night”
Astrophysics student Alex Parker’s work involves a lot of starry nights, focusing on the formation and evolution of planetary systems.
So when cloudy weather stopped the PhD student from exploring space from his office at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, he decided to get creative.
He moulded some of the stunning images from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope into an homage to Vincent Van Gogh’s famous 1889 painting, ‘Starry night’, using photo-mosaic software.
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Alex Parker, a PHD astronomy student took Van Gogh’s 1889 painting, and built it back up from arguably humanity’s other most famous space portraits – those taken by the Hubble telescope over the last 20 years. Picture: Supplied
While the original artwork is set outside the painter’s asylum room window, where he was staying after a mental breakdown the year before at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, in France, Parker’s version is a lighter take on the awe-inspiring night sky.
Parker explained to Michele Banks at thefinchandpea.com :“The idea came up around the time of Hubble’s 22nd birthday, when I thought it would be neat to assemble a collage of a bunch of Hubble images from over its history.”
[Alternate to the original can be found HERE]
